Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] staging: wfx: fix warnings of no space is necessary

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 21:52 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Joe Perches wrote:
> []
> > > There's probably a generic cocci mechanism to check function
> > > prototypes and then remove uses of unnecessary void pointer casts
> > > in function calls.  I'm not going to try to figure out that syntax.
> >
> > With the --recursive-includes option, perhaps:
> >
> > @r@
> > identifier f;
> > parameter list[n] ps;
> > type T;
> > identifier i;
> > @@
> >
> > T f(ps, void *i, ...);
> >
> > @@
> > expression e;
> > identifier r.f;
> > expression list[r.n] es;
> > @@
> >
> > f(es,
> > - (void *)(e)
> > + e
> >   ,...)
> >
> > This of course only works for functions that have prototypes, and not for
> > macros.  It will also run slowly.
>
> You are not kidding about slow, but it doesn't seem to work
> for mem<foo>, maybe because system includes aren't analyzed.

No they are not.

> Single file processing time on an XPS13 averages more than
> 100 seconds per file.

Not surprising.

Actually, --include-headers-for-types should provide some benefit.  That
discards the header files after the type inference.

> Also:
>
> 	expression e;
>
> could probably be better as:
>
> 	type T;
> 	T *p;

Good point.  expression *e; would be sufficient.

julia

>
> as some of the expressions cast to void are int or size_t
> and it's probably better to restrict the conversions to
> just pointer or array types.
>
>
>